Improvement in vehicle-top adjusters



L. EVERETT. Vehicle-Top Adjuste1 No. 202,937. Patented April 30,1878.

ILPEIEns. PHOT0 LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD EVERETT, OF LOCKPORT, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-TOP ADJUSTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,937, dated April30, 1878; application filed March 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD EVERETT, of the city of Lockport, county ofNiagara, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buggy-Top Supports, which improvement is fully set forthin the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device regularly attached to anordinary buggy-seat and supporting the top. Fig. 2 is a detail of thedevice itself, and shows a side view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view throughline aw on Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to produce a device to support the top ortilt of a buggy, wagon, &c., in any position desired Without employingthe use of springs, bolts, or catches, and depending only upon frictionto retain the top where desired.

It is composed of three pieces or parts, which are marked, respectively,A B O. The piece A is secured to the end of the seat, and at the top, orabove the upper edge of seat, it is bent horizontal, and is providedwith a semicircular ring, a, in which the piece B fits. This piece B isabout three (3) inches in diameter, and about three-fourths of an inchthick. In the periphery of the disk is cuta V-shaped channel, I), whichfits a corresponding V- shaped bearing, a, in the inner diameter of thesemicircular ring a.

The piece 0 is a half-circle, corresponding to that part of the piece Awhich forms the ring or semi-rin g a. The lower part is provided with ahook, b, which fits under the lug 0, cast on the piece A, as shown onFig. 2. The inner part forms a V-shaped bearing, which also fits thechannel cut in the disk B. The upper part of both halves of the ring, aand O, are provided with a projection for the reception of thethumb-screw d, which passes through the piece 0 and screws into thepiece a. On the outer side of the disk B is a socket for the receptionof the middle bow e of the top, the other two bows, e e, being pivotedto the middle bow e at f f.

The manner of putting my device together is as follows: First, the diskB is secured to the middle bow e, and then set into the semicircularring a. The piece 0 is then hooked under the lug c, and placed in itsposition in the V-shaped channel in the disk B, then screwed at the topto the corresponding half on the opposite side by the thumb-screw d,space enough being left to allow for whatever wearing away may occur.The two parts of the ring form a clamp around the disk B, and any degreeof friction may be obtained by the thumb-screw 01, so that the top maybe held tight enough for the ordinary racking of a buggy over roughroads, and yet not too tight to prevent a person seated in the buggyfrom shifting it to any position he may desire, as indicated by dottedlines 9 g g on Fig. 1, to shield himself from the elements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the bows c c c, which sustain the top of a buggy orcarriage, the rotating disk B, nd the binding-clamp formed by the partsA,/:, and G, and thumb-screw d, all substantially as shown anddescribed.

LEONARD EVERETT.

In presence of- EDGAR P. HOLLY, EARL H. NIcHoLs.

